The first bass you hear is the Exploiter - the second bass that comes in with the drums and playing the "bass" part is the 4001. The Rick is played through both channels of an Alembic F2-B - one clean with the bright switch on, one distorted, though the distorted track is mixed down quite a bit. Neck pickup, played with a pick.

The Exploiter is being played through a Demeter Compulator, then a Roland RE-201 Space Echo, and then through another compressor, before going direct into ProTools. I've got the gain on the Space Echo pretty high, and the second compressor has a tube in it, so that probably accounts for the slight bit of fur. Oh, and for the most part I'm using a really thick bone pick - only the intro and outro parts are played with a regular delrin pick.

(Normally I would play all my parts through the F2-B, but I didn't have long enough cables to include it! It was interesting to experiment with a different setup though.)

Oh, and before I forget, the credits: composed by Bridge/DeGuglielmo - drums by Greg DeGuglielmo - drums recorded/engineered by Damon Burke at Oxbow Studios in Wayland, MA - bass parts performed and recorded by hieronymous in Lodi, CA.

Thanks olieoliver! Yeah, at the moment everything at myspace is bass - there's an 8-string Tune and Fender Mustang bass on "next to last" (plus Moog synth), "basking in the autumnglo" is a Rickenbacker 4001, and "afternoon stroll" is the Jaguar Bottom Master. (The links in this post are higher quality mp3s.)

From what I understand, not being a botanist, is the color and grain variations are due to the mineral content in the water the tree absorbed when it was alive. Just a glorious freak of nature, in other words.